The gift of conflict
10 min 50 s
Rev. Pegi Ridout
- The difficulty with conflict isn’t that we have it, it’s that we don’t know how to do it well.
- How do we treat conflict as gift? How do we get there?
- Respectful communication guidelines developed by Eric Law at the Kaleidoscope Institute
- trust, respect, listen, then speak.
- Conflict skills/muscles are built through practice;
- Pegi’s 3 types of practice for building our conflict muscles;
The Reverend Pegi Ridout has been an Intentional Interim Minister since 2001 and has served 7 congregations since then in that capacity, as well as doing similar work in 4 congregations in the 1980s. She has experience in urban, rural, and suburban congregations of all sizes and spent a decade developing a new community of faith.
Pegi lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is on the faculty of the Interim Ministry Network as well as giving leadership in the United Church of Canada as a mediator, coach and committee chair. For recreation she plays hockey, gardens and swims, reads, and does Sudoku puzzles.
- Recorded in December of 2021
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